Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk is in an uproar after backing Germany’s far-right party in a leading newspaper forward of the Western European country’s major parliamentary elections, leading to the resignation of the newspaper’s opinion editor.

Germany will have to vote in snap elections on Feb. 23 after Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s three-party government coalition collaborated last month in a clash over how to revitalize the country’s stagnating economy.

Musk’s guest op-ed for Welt Am Sonntag, a sister publication of Politico owned by Axel Springer Group, published in German over the weekend, the moment this month supported the choice of Germany or the AFD.

“The alternative for Germany (AFD) is the spark of hope for this country,” Musk wrote in his translated comment.

He added that the extreme right party “can lead to the country towards a long term where economic prosperity, cultural integrity and technological innovation are mere desires, but a reality. “

The Tesla Motors CEO also wrote that his investment in Germany gave him the right to comment on the country’s condition.

The AFD intervenes strongly, but its candidate for first place, Alice Weidel, has no realistic chance of being possible because other parties refuse to paint with the excessive right.

A best friend of U. S. President-elect Donald Trump, the tech billionaire, the party’s public symbol in his op-ed.

“The representation of the AFD as the right -wing extremist is obviously incorrect, since Alice Weidel, the party leader, has a same sex spouse of Sri Lanka! It reminds you of Hitler? Please!”

Musk’s comment led to a debate in the German media about the limits of loose speech, with the newspaper’s own opinion editor handing out his resignation, Sharp on Musk’s social media platform, X.

“I always enjoyed leading the opinion section of WELT and WAMS. Today an article by Elon Musk appeared in Welt am Sonntag. I handed in my resignation yesterday after it went to print,” Eva Marie Kogel wrote.

A critical article by Long Run-In-Chief of the Welt Group editor Jan Philipp Burgard accompanied Musk’s opinion.

“Musk’s diagnosis is correct, but his curative approach that AFD can save Germany is fatally flawed,” Burgard wrote.

Responding to a request to observe the German news firm DPA, the existing editor of the Welt Ulf Postchardt and Burgard group, who will take the workplace on January 1, said in a set that the discussion of Musk’s article was “Very informative. Democracy and journalism prosper in freedom of expression.

“This will continue to determine the compass of the ‘world’ in the future. We will develop Die Welt even more decisively as a forum for such debates,” they wrote to dpa.